The payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees ...

However, Scott Galloway, author and New York University professor, wants his readers to think in a big, different way about ...

If you're currently receiving Social Security or will be receiving it soon, make sure you're aware of the following changes ...

First, here is background to help you understand what GPO was all about. Throughout the history of Social Security, the law ...

While it can be hard to know what your retirement fund will look like, given that you may take multiple jobs with different benefit packages throughout your career, there is a lot of available data on ...

Linda Lara, 72, lives in a subsidized senior apartment and works part-time to supplement her Social Security. But she's still scraping by.

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Sweden's partial privatization of its social insurance system - 2.5% of wages going to stocks - seems a good model for the U.S. There is no federal program that is more important to the financial ...

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Social Security is a program that millions of older Americans rely on. Yet it’s facing its share of financial challenges. In ...

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Amid increasing outrage over proposed changes to Social Security benefit access, staff reduction and recent website outages, some may be monitoring their payments with a little extra scrutiny in ...